Word: whispering
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Planes zoomed overhead, but only the hunch-players were reminded of a 50-to-1 shot called Airborne. There was a hush as three stately maroon Daimlers rolled up the track to leave their passengers at the Royal Box. The whisper "They're off!" sounded as it always...
Trenet is just 30, six feet tall, and built like a halfback. His creamy tenor occasionally softens to a bedroom whisper, but usually it is roguish and rolling. As he sings, he twists and crumples a battered felt hat. That was how he began ten years ago in Paris' Bohemian cabaret Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof). Soon he was earning more on the radio and in the music halls than Chevalier. During the war he sang for French prisoners in Germany. He looks well-fed; as he explains it, "there is always a crust...
...Croly assembled a motley crew of insurrectionists. Into his journal went some of the best of Walter Lippmann, Francis Hackett, Elinor Wylie, Rebecca West, Robert Morss Lovett, Edmund Wilson. At his famous staff luncheons, everyone talked in low tones-in' deference to Croly's own shy near-whisper. In the eyes of New Republicans, Croly was a scholar journalist, and Oswald Garrison Villard, his opposite number on the Nation, a mere hotheaded warhorse. They were proud of the difference...
Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic. Arithmetic is not so bad, although I cannot multiply as fast as befits a teacher. But writing, my friends! Especially on blackboards! As I was putting some questions on the board, I heard one child whisper to another: "Gee, she writes terrible!" I agreed out loud and told them nobody had taught poor little me to write, and that they'd have to help me. But my greatest hold on the circus is Dramatic Reading. Apparently they have always been read to in a monotone, for they find my delivery most enchanting...
...Moscow listened to any protest at call, it would not be to the feeble whisper of its southern neighbor. To Moscow went a note from London requesting an explanation. How much farther Britain would or could go depended on how much tougher the U.S. would be in its new foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...